LON­DON, Eng­land – De­spite reach­ing the semi­fi­nals of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, no play­er from the West In­dies Women’s team was se­lect­ed in the Team of the Tour­na­ment.

Four play­ers from Aus­tralia Women’s cham­pi­on side along with two play­ers from los­ing fi­nal­ists Eng­land Women dom­i­nate the 12-mem­ber team an­nounced by the ICC on Mon­day.

Aus­tralia’s So­phie Mo­lineux, who claimed 11 wick­ets in sev­en match­es, was named cap­tain af­ter lead­ing her side to a com­pre­hen­sive sev­en-wick­et win over Eng­land on Sun­day to cap­ture their sev­enth T20 ti­tle.

She was joined by wick­et­keep­er Beth Mooney, who scored 238 runs in sev­en match­es at an av­er­age of 47.60, Ell­yse Per­ry, who scored 198 runs at an av­er­age of 49.50 and Ash Gard­ner, who scored 150 runs at an av­er­age of 50, while al­so tak­ing three wick­ets.

Eng­land’s duo of Dan­ni Wy­att-Hodge and cap­tain Nat Sciv­er-Brunt were al­so in­clud­ed, while left-arm spin­ner Shree Cha­rani was the lone In­di­an named in the team af­ter fin­ish­ing as the tour­na­ment’s lead­ing wick­et-tak­er with 14 scalps in just five match­es – the sec­ond-high­est tal­ly ever record­ed at a sin­gle Women’s T20 World Cup.

Ire­land’s Or­la Pren­der­gast, Sri Lan­ka’s Ni­lak­shi­ka Sil­va, South Africa’s Ma­rizanne Kapp and Pak­istan cap­tain Fa­ti­ma Sana com­plet­ed the XI.

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